Causes of Rape in society

The causes of rape involved the process of socialization within
society. According to research conducted by Peggy Reeves Sanday, higher
incidence of rape occurred in societies that tolerated masculine
violence where young boys are taught to be aggressive and used physical
force if necessary to get what they want.

According to Peggy, in societies where men and women share equal
power and authority, young boys and girls that were taught to avoid
aggression and violence tend to experience no incidence of rape
activity.

The process of socialization may be the reason US have the
highest incidence of rape in western nations. Several causes of rape
factors are the result of the ways society influence men to use power,
aggression, and physical force if necessary to get what they want.
Therefore, the same socialization process influences men to use
aggression and physical force if necessary to get sexual gratification
from women.

Society plays a major part influencing and reinforcing gender
roles that are learned through peers, school, and media. From early
ages young boys are taught to be aggressive and young girls are taught
to be passive.

Society influences women to become passive and nurturing who are
less likely to challenge men’s aggression. The fact is any women are at
risk of being rape because men are physically stronger and no matter
how hard women try to resist men can overpower women. The rapist also
tends to select victims they can intimidate into submission by using
threat and weapons.

According to research conducted by Boeringer indicates that
viewing hard-core pornography with violent rape scene can also lead to
the causes of rape. Watching hard-core pornography is capable of
leading men’s aggression towards sex and women that may also increase
his desire to engage in such acts.

Many researches indicate that not all rapes are sexually
motivated as some are motivated by desire for power and domination and
some are motivated by desire for sexual gratification.

Rapists that are motivated by power and domination usually have
strong anger towards women tend to engaged more often in stranger rape
in an attempt to express power and domination. Rapists that are
motivated by desire for sexual gratification tend to engaged more often
in acquaintance rape or date rape to achieve gratification.

According to research conducted by Abel, some rapist may engage in more violent sexual offenses such as child sexual abuse,
exhibitionism, voyeurism, and sexual sadism. Abel also discovered that some rapists
fantasized about rape and violence long before committing the actual act
and many of them also masturbated to rape fantasy in their mid-teens.

Report indicates most rapists come from lower socioeconomic
status with lack of education and unemployed. Report indicates women of
all ages are raped. Women with lower socioeconomic status are more
often victims of rape because of poor living condition. Women living in
poverty are more likely to be subject to these types of crime.